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I’m preparing for TeslaCon this weekend, so I’m being brief. This is the finished costuming project I’ve been blogging about, complete with small wire horns. You can get more info on the project here: Costuming Project: Steampunk Loki Jacket Part 2, Color, Fabric and Trim Part 3, Sleeves and Shoulders Gluing and Sewing

This weekend I attended Steamtopia in Dearborn, MI. As usual, I arrived with multiple outfits, as is standard for attendees at a steampunk convention. However, this time the collection included the Loki jacket about which I have been posting. It’s still not finished – it will eventually have a gold and green skirt – but it was far enough along to display with a plain, black micro-suede skirt. One of the problems I have with non-sewn projects is they start

This is a continuation of posts relating to my current steampunk costuming project Steampunk Loki Jacket Part Two: Color, Fabric, and Trim Holding Costumes Together: Sewing, Fabric Glue, and Hot Glue I have a love-hate relationship with the sleeves and shoulders. The most successful part of whole coat was the sleeves, which is good because they were a pain in the ass to do. Perhaps the least successful part was the shoulders, which were necessary because of the sleeves. Cutting

This continues from Costuming Project: Steampunk Loki Jacket, where I outlined the first steps in finding a suitable base coat and did some basic shaping. Now it’s time to create more intricate decoration and add some color to the project. Fabric Color Loki’s movie jacket is black and overly brilliant green with gold embellishments. These are the colors of a comic book character. While I damn near always go for ostentatious in my steampunk costuming, often bordering on absurd, those

I am always suspicious of glue. It’s failed me in a wide variety of projects. When working with hard materials, I tend to default to superglue to side-step the almost inevitable failure of lesser glues. I can’t do that with my steampunk Loki coat project. I have to actually choose glue like a grown-up. As an Aside: Two other items of note in the above image are wax paper and Sharpies. Glue does not stick well to wax, so its

I came out of Thor 2 with a mission in life: a steampunk version of Loki’s coat. (Even better if it came with Loki inside it, but that’s beyond my capabilities.) This is easily my most complicated project to date, and, unlike most projects I’ve discussed (primarily at my costuming site Steaming Apparel, but also my Improvising Steampunk Fashion and Recycling Old Items posts), I’m totally not offering this up for beginners. This is a major personal project, but it